David Agranoff
@davidagranoff.bsky.social
Author of the Wonderland award nominated The Last Night to Kill Nazis. Postcards from a Dying World & Co-Host of the Dickheads podcasts about Philip K Dick and Sci Fi history. Columnist for Amazing Stories. Writes SF, Horror, and Bizarro. Vegan SxE
Chuck Schumer really sucks at his job.
"No Senate Democrats have joined their colleagues in seeking Schumer’s resignation and none responded to requests for comment from the Prospect."
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November 12, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Chuck Schumer really sucks at his job.
Saw the new Predator movie. If I only worked 4 days a week I would see more movies in the theater.
A ★★★★ review of Predator: Badlands (2025)
When Prey came out I was ten minutes from the end of the movie when my TV caught on fire. Just saying. I was not expecting high art, but as a pulpy silly weird SF action movie it was everything I was ...
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November 12, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Saw the new Predator movie. If I only worked 4 days a week I would see more movies in the theater.
Book review up for @dharlanwilson.bsky.social 's newest novel(ish) book that takes place in a hilarious post-reality dystopia with plenty asides on science fiction, and film that descends into memoir and a weird art manifesto.
Book Review: Usurper by D. Harlan Wilson
Usuper by D.Harlan Wilson 172 pages, Paperback Expected publication February 1, 2026 by Guide Dog Books It should be noted that I was a bi...
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November 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Book review up for @dharlanwilson.bsky.social 's newest novel(ish) book that takes place in a hilarious post-reality dystopia with plenty asides on science fiction, and film that descends into memoir and a weird art manifesto.
Well I am still working on a longer more detailed review but yes order this book it is fantastic.
Thank you to @davidagranoff.bsky.social for the review of ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION 💜🍄
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November 11, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Well I am still working on a longer more detailed review but yes order this book it is fantastic.
This is my favorite interview I have done about my own fiction, and mad respect for Eric who edited in clips of Sammy Terry , Pictures of Earth Crisis and clips from the Navarone movies...
David Agranoff: Writing Against Fascism with Fangs and Fire
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November 11, 2025 at 4:59 AM
This is my favorite interview I have done about my own fiction, and mad respect for Eric who edited in clips of Sammy Terry , Pictures of Earth Crisis and clips from the Navarone movies...
Oh hell yeah! @johnshirley2024.bsky.social interview is up on Paperback Warrior - a great podcast! Check it out!
Conversations - The John Shirley Interview
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November 10, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Oh hell yeah! @johnshirley2024.bsky.social interview is up on Paperback Warrior - a great podcast! Check it out!
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My theory about Joyce Carol Oates is that all her bad posts are her charging up like Godzilla's spines until she lets loose with a radioactive blast that leaves the world's richest Nazi a pile of ash
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Kinda bonkers Korean serial killer movie. Would've been more effective if the leads were more likable. They tried to make the mob boss likable. Entertaining, but just good, not great.
A ★★★½ review of The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (2019)
Strange Korean crime thriller. After Serial killer almost kills a Korean Mob boss, the cop trying to bust him makes a bet with the mobster. Who will catch the killer first. The cop couldn't be any mor...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Kinda bonkers Korean serial killer movie. Would've been more effective if the leads were more likable. They tried to make the mob boss likable. Entertaining, but just good, not great.
ICYMI this is the panel on Severance I moderated at SFAM. IF you like Severance give it a listen...
Episode #188 Severance Panel Discussion Recorded Live at SFAM in LA.
Podcast Episode · Postcards from a Dying World · 10/06/2025 · 1h 32m
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November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
ICYMI this is the panel on Severance I moderated at SFAM. IF you like Severance give it a listen...
Book review up. Well I reviewed 90% of it because I have a story in this anthology. Great stories by everyone involved.
Book Review: Space Horrors Edited by E.S. Magill
250 pages, Paperback/ Kindle Published September 20, 2025 by Gramarye Press (Yes, I have a short story in this one. The closing stor...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Book review up. Well I reviewed 90% of it because I have a story in this anthology. Great stories by everyone involved.
Just finished writing notes for tomorrow's live podcast on Philip K. Dick's Mass Cultural Epistemology. Many of the questions are about how Phil's quest for knowledge made him such an extraordinary voice. John Reider, our guest, is also an expert on 19th-century proto-Sci-Fi...
November 4, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Just finished writing notes for tomorrow's live podcast on Philip K. Dick's Mass Cultural Epistemology. Many of the questions are about how Phil's quest for knowledge made him such an extraordinary voice. John Reider, our guest, is also an expert on 19th-century proto-Sci-Fi...
A super violent Samurai movie about warring clans, one that embraces gun and technlogy and the 11 Samurai who attempt to hold their castle with swords. I mean I enjoyed it.
A ★★★★ review of 11 Rebels (2024)
A fun over-the-top super super-violent Samurai movie that starts off with a Dirty Dozen-like story, but it eventually becomes a seige story about the shifting war technology and the end of the Samurai...
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November 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A super violent Samurai movie about warring clans, one that embraces gun and technlogy and the 11 Samurai who attempt to hold their castle with swords. I mean I enjoyed it.
Saturday night Pre-dude Bridges series continues with this warmed-over turd. Only impressive thing is the entire movie has not one likable character.
A ★★ review of Cutter's Way (1981)
As a part of our series of Saturday night Pre-dude Jeff Bridges movies we watched this warmed-over turd. What the ever living hell is this Santa Barbara noir. Terrible writing, insane direction. wall ...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Saturday night Pre-dude Bridges series continues with this warmed-over turd. Only impressive thing is the entire movie has not one likable character.
Every Tuesday night 6 PM PST Free PKD hangout on Zoom. Think of the it as a free class on Philip K. Dick and science Fiction. the second hour we hang out and talk about what we are reading, watching, learning this week Professor John Rieder…
November 2, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Every Tuesday night 6 PM PST Free PKD hangout on Zoom. Think of the it as a free class on Philip K. Dick and science Fiction. the second hour we hang out and talk about what we are reading, watching, learning this week Professor John Rieder…
book review up. While I am not the biggest fan of the Stand, I think this anthology is a towering achievement. @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social
Book Review: The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand Edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene
The End of the World As We Know It: New Tales of Stephen King's The Stand: Edited by Christopher Golden and Brian Keene 779 pages, Hardcov...
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November 2, 2025 at 5:41 PM
book review up. While I am not the biggest fan of the Stand, I think this anthology is a towering achievement. @briankeene.bsky.social @cgolden.bsky.social
What makes this movie so scary is to picture this happening with the current clown show in charge. Also everyone keeps saying this is Roshomon structured, and it is not.
A ★★★★★ review of A House of Dynamite (2025)
Generally a fan of Kathryn Bigalow movies, and I make a point to see them. Really bummed that it took 8 years to get another one. I keep hearing film critics say this film has a Roshomon structure, bu...
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November 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What makes this movie so scary is to picture this happening with the current clown show in charge. Also everyone keeps saying this is Roshomon structured, and it is not.
Full review up for the new neo-noir crime thriller from John Shirley. Pick up a copy today! A grieving father seeks to find the people that sold his son the drugs that killed him. Revenge is never simple.
Book Review: The Silver Revolver: A Western Crime Thriller by John Shirley
The Silver Revolver: A Western Crime Thriller by John Shirley 356 pages, Paperback Published October 11, 2025 by Rough Edges Press Of l...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Full review up for the new neo-noir crime thriller from John Shirley. Pick up a copy today! A grieving father seeks to find the people that sold his son the drugs that killed him. Revenge is never simple.
One of the best books I read this year is by Korean author Bora Chung . This collection is filled with science fiction but is considered "literature," not sure if she is team Leguin or Atwood on the SF or not debate but this is great stuff.
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Book review: Your Utopia by Bora Chung
Your Utopia by Bora Chung 256 pages, Paperback Published January, 2024 by Algonquin Books This was a book that was first put on my ra...
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October 28, 2025 at 11:41 PM
One of the best books I read this year is by Korean author Bora Chung . This collection is filled with science fiction but is considered "literature," not sure if she is team Leguin or Atwood on the SF or not debate but this is great stuff.
davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2025/10/book...
Fantastic collection review up now!
Book review: Your Utopia by Bora Chung
Your Utopia by Bora Chung 256 pages, Paperback Published January, 2024 by Algonquin Books This was a book that was first put on my ra...
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October 28, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Fantastic collection review up now!
Next 4 PKD hangouts live on Zoom 6 PM PST.. join us Tonight...
Vincent V. Cava: the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and the collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing one of PKD’s first stories Beyond Lies the Wub.
Vincent V. Cava: the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and the collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing one of PKD’s first stories Beyond Lies the Wub.
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October 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Next 4 PKD hangouts live on Zoom 6 PM PST.. join us Tonight...
Vincent V. Cava: the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and the collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing one of PKD’s first stories Beyond Lies the Wub.
Vincent V. Cava: the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and the collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing one of PKD’s first stories Beyond Lies the Wub.
"Agranoff's debut is an effective, funny, serious, alarming novel that has a lot to say and a short time to get there."
The Vegan Revolution...with Zombies
Reviews of crime-fiction, science-fiction, horror, noir, comics, graphic novels, westerns, fantasy, pulp, vintage paperbacks, magazines, mystery, goth
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October 28, 2025 at 5:07 AM
"Agranoff's debut is an effective, funny, serious, alarming novel that has a lot to say and a short time to get there."
tomorrow night for the PKD hangout we're talking Beyond Lies the Wub written in late 1951 with author Vincent VenaCava. As always we will also go deep into the world-building at the back story and history of Phil's life when he wrote this. Join us live 9 PM EST, 6 PM PST. Link_>
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Beyond Lies the Wub, by Philip K. Dick
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October 28, 2025 at 3:52 AM
tomorrow night for the PKD hangout we're talking Beyond Lies the Wub written in late 1951 with author Vincent VenaCava. As always we will also go deep into the world-building at the back story and history of Phil's life when he wrote this. Join us live 9 PM EST, 6 PM PST. Link_>
This week on the PKD hangout! October 28: Vincent V. Cava the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and several creep pasta tales and has a collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing the classic PKD story Beyond Lies the Wub.
October 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM
This week on the PKD hangout! October 28: Vincent V. Cava the author and screenwriter who is known for horror and several creep pasta tales and has a collection called Pastel Colored Dreams and Human Flavored Nightmares. We will be discussing the classic PKD story Beyond Lies the Wub.
Come on Coyotes they lock up those to kill them for profit and greed, get with the picture.
California wildlife officials have been working to mitigate the impact of the state's rebounding wolf population on its ranchers. The Northern California wolves that were euthanized had become dependent on cattle for food. n.pr/4nnxXbk
California euthanizes 4 gray wolves after 'unprecedented' surge in livestock kills
California wildlife officials have been working to mitigate the impact of the state's rebounding wolf population on its ranchers. The Northern California wolves that were euthanized had become dependent on cattle for food.
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October 27, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Come on Coyotes they lock up those to kill them for profit and greed, get with the picture.
Wuxia kungfu horror comedy - like a modern mister vampire. Totally bonkers. Drags in the middle a bit trying to develop a story. Nonetheless, I had fun.
A ★★★ review of The Mysterious Story of Longyun Town (2022)
This is not for everyone, a totally bonkers modern take on the type of insane 80s HK monster movies like Mister Vampire. Only a little hopping vampire, but Wuxia insanity with robots, animal ghosts, e...
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October 27, 2025 at 5:15 AM
Wuxia kungfu horror comedy - like a modern mister vampire. Totally bonkers. Drags in the middle a bit trying to develop a story. Nonetheless, I had fun.